Bidspirit auction | GALANTE, MOSHE. Korban Chagigah [halachic

GALANTE, MOSHE. Korban Chagigah [halachic novellae]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 56. Worn in places. Modern boards. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 1550. Venice, Bragadin, 1704. Issued by R. Moshe Hagiz, composed by his maternal grandfather. R. Moshe Hagiz is celebrated for his dogged pursuit of crypto-Sabbatians (believers in the pseudo-Messiah Shabbetai Zevi). His father, R. Ya’akov Hagiz, was head of the yeshivah in Jerusalem where Nathan of Gaza, prophet of Shabthai Tzvi, studied as a young man. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies (New York, 1990).